Reasoning Models papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Reasoning Models went from 470 papers in 2023 to 1,799 in 2026, roughly 3.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Reasoning Models work: 1,253 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 437 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, AI Agents, is up 12x versus 3.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Looped Reasoning Language Models
• ICML 2026A Formal Comparison Between Chain of Thought and Latent Thought
• ICLR 2026A Simple "Motivation" Can Enhance Reinforcement Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models
• CVPR 2026Asking like Socrates Socrates helps VLMs understand remote sensing images
• NeurIPS 2025A Frustratingly Simple Yet Highly Effective Attack Baseline: Over 90% Success Rate Against the Strong Black-box Models of GPT-4.5/4o/o1
• ICML 2025A Reasoning-Based Approach to Cryptic Crossword Clue Solving
• ICLR 2025A Formal Framework for Understanding Length Generalization in Transformers
• CVPR 2025Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
• NeurIPS 2024Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
• ICML 2024Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models
• ICLR 2024Amortizing intractable inference in large language models
• CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
• NeurIPS 2023A benchmark of categorical encoders for binary classification
• ICML 2023Can We Scale Transformers to Predict Parameters of Diverse ImageNet Models?
• ICLR 2023Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
• CVPR 2023ActMAD: Activation Matching To Align Distributions for Test-Time-Training
• NeurIPS 2026A Solvable Model of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning
• ICML 2026A Narrowing Geometry in Contaminated Reasoning
• ICLR 2026A State-Transition Framework for Efficient LLM Reasoning
• CVPR 2026Beyond Weak Supervision MLLMs-Guided Graded Knowledge Distillation for Unsupervised Camouflaged

All Reasoning Models papers

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1051. NeurIPS 2023EmbodiedGPT: Vision-Language Pre-Training via Embodied Chain of Thought
1052. NeurIPS 2023Embracing the chaos: analysis and diagnosis of numerical instability in variational flows
1053. NeurIPS 2023Energy Discrepancies: A Score-Independent Loss for Energy-Based Models
1054. NeurIPS 2023Energy-Based Models for Anomaly Detection: A Manifold Diffusion Recovery Approach
1055. NeurIPS 2023Evaluating and Improving Tool-Augmented Computation-Intensive Math Reasoning
1056. NeurIPS 2023Evaluating Cognitive Maps and Planning in Large Language Models with CogEval
1057. NeurIPS 2023Event Stream GPT: A Data Pre-processing and Modeling Library for Generative, Pre-trained Transformers over Continuous-time Sequences of Complex Events
1058. NeurIPS 2023Exact Bayesian Inference on Discrete Models via Probability Generating Functions: A Probabilistic Programming Approach
1059. NeurIPS 2023Exact Generalization Guarantees for (Regularized) Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Models
1060. NeurIPS 2023Exact recovery and Bregman hard clustering of node-attributed Stochastic Block Model
1061. NeurIPS 2023Exact Representation of Sparse Networks with Symmetric Nonnegative Embeddings
1062. NeurIPS 2023Exploring and Interacting with the Set of Good Sparse Generalized Additive Models
1063. NeurIPS 2023Exposing Attention Glitches with Flip-Flop Language Modeling
1064. NeurIPS 2023Exposing flaws of generative model evaluation metrics and their unfair treatment of diffusion models
1065. NeurIPS 2023Extending the Design Space of Graph Neural Networks by Rethinking Folklore Weisfeiler-Lehman
1066. NeurIPS 2023Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
1067. NeurIPS 2023Fantastic Robustness Measures: The Secrets of Robust Generalization
1068. NeurIPS 2023Fast Approximation of Similarity Graphs with Kernel Density Estimation
1069. NeurIPS 2023Fast Attention Requires Bounded Entries
1070. NeurIPS 2023Fast Scalable and Accurate Discovery of DAGs Using the Best Order Score Search and Grow Shrink Trees
1071. NeurIPS 2023Fed-CO$_{2}$: Cooperation of Online and Offline Models for Severe Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
1072. NeurIPS 2023FELM: Benchmarking Factuality Evaluation of Large Language Models
1073. NeurIPS 2023Finding Counterfactually Optimal Action Sequences in Continuous State Spaces
1074. NeurIPS 2023Generalizing Nonlinear ICA Beyond Structural Sparsity
1075. NeurIPS 2023GeoPhy: Differentiable Phylogenetic Inference via Geometric Gradients of Tree Topologies
1076. NeurIPS 2023Glance and Focus: Memory Prompting for Multi-Event Video Question Answering
1077. NeurIPS 2023GloptiNets: Scalable Non-Convex Optimization with Certificates
1078. NeurIPS 2023Goal Driven Discovery of Distributional Differences via Language Descriptions
1079. NeurIPS 2023GradOrth: A Simple yet Efficient Out-of-Distribution Detection with Orthogonal Projection of Gradients
1080. NeurIPS 2023GraphPatcher: Mitigating Degree Bias for Graph Neural Networks via Test-time Augmentation
1081. NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical VAEs provide a normative account of motion processing in the primate brain
1082. NeurIPS 2023How to Turn Your Knowledge Graph Embeddings into Generative Models
1083. NeurIPS 2023Human-like Few-Shot Learning via Bayesian Reasoning over Natural Language
1084. NeurIPS 2023ImageNet-Hard: The Hardest Images Remaining from a Study of the Power of Zoom and Spatial Biases in Image Classification
1085. NeurIPS 2023Imbalanced Mixed Linear Regression
1086. NeurIPS 2023Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent for Logistic Regression at the Edge of Stability
1087. NeurIPS 2023Improving the Privacy and Practicality of Objective Perturbation for Differentially Private Linear Learners
1088. NeurIPS 2023In-Context Impersonation Reveals Large Language Models' Strengths and Biases
1089. NeurIPS 2023Interactive Visual Reasoning under Uncertainty
1090. NeurIPS 2023Intervention Generalization: A View from Factor Graph Models
1091. NeurIPS 2023Intriguing Properties of Quantization at Scale
1092. NeurIPS 2023Intrinsic Dimension Estimation for Robust Detection of AI-Generated Texts
1093. NeurIPS 2023Is Heterogeneity Notorious? Taming Heterogeneity to Handle Test-Time Shift in Federated Learning
1094. NeurIPS 2023iSCAN: Identifying Causal Mechanism Shifts among Nonlinear Additive Noise Models
1095. NeurIPS 2023Joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and language models
1096. NeurIPS 2023Kernel Stein Discrepancy thinning: a theoretical perspective of pathologies and a practical fix with regularization
1097. NeurIPS 2023Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning Distillation for Small Language Models in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks
1098. NeurIPS 2023Knowledge-based in silico models and dataset for the comparative evaluation of mammography AI for a range of breast characteristics, lesion conspicuities and doses
1099. NeurIPS 2023LaFTer: Label-Free Tuning of Zero-shot Classifier using Language and Unlabeled Image Collections
1100. NeurIPS 2023Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models

FAQ

How many Reasoning Models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

3,512 in total: 470 in 2023, 311 in 2024, 932 in 2025, 1,799 in 2026.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 361 Reasoning Models papers, versus 500 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 652 Reasoning Models papers, versus 203 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 582 Reasoning Models papers, versus 159 the year before.

How many Reasoning Models papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 204 Reasoning Models papers, versus 70 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Reasoning Models papers?

NeurIPS, with 1,253 papers from 2023 to 2026.